I hope so. I played the game last year and everything felt a bit lackluster and janky. It's a pretty fun game, but I hope 1.0 adds that polish it needs.
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Not really sure it's for me but I am just happy that it really annoys Nintendo
Out ofthe loop here. Why does Nintendo care?
It kinda looks like the pikachu game
Detective Pikachu?
They plagiarized a bunch of Pokemon and used the publicity generated to bring attention to their game (which admittedly has nothing to do with Pokémon aside from the aforementioned similar-looking monsters).
If memory serves, the plagiarism allegations were doctored. Nintendo tried to find whatever they could sue them for, and it wasn't plagiarizing monster designs; it was for things like "riding a captured creature" and "catching creatures by throwing a ball at them". Some aspect of Japanese law allowed for them to make new patents after Palworld came out and then sue them for it retroactively.
I'm not talking about what went into court. Most pals are "legally distinct" monsters, but that's what brought the game to public awareness, what started the comparisons with Pokémon, and why Nintendo hated their guts. Monster collectors have existed outside of Pokémon for decades and still do, Nintendo only sued Palworld because they copy-pasted their monsters with a different color palette.
What brought the game to court compared to the other monster collectors is that this one made a shit-ton of money, and the other ones didn't, so Nintendo and The Pokemon Company were, for the first time, threatened.
They wouldn't feel threatened by Palworld if it wasn't for the legally distinct™ designs because, at its core, Palworld is a completely different game that only vaguely resembles Pokémon on a very superficial level (the monster themselves).
If it's legally not considered copy-pasting their monsters, why do you feel like you can assert that it is plagiarism? I suppose that's your opinion, and you're entitled to it, but I also think people have a right to call you out on it for saying it as if it's a fact when it is not actually a recognized fact. Plenty of people would dispute that, including myself, and certainly Pocketpair would, and evidence suggests the courts probably would've agreed with them hence it wasn't even worth pursuing legally.
You can dispute that Palworld didn't copy-paste Pokémon body parts and palette swap their designs to create their legally distinct clones, but I'd call that bullshit. People only side with PocketPair because they plagiarized Nintendo, which people (rightfully) hates. If it was done to anyone else, nobody would defend them. I can hate Nintendo and still posit that what PocketPair did was shitty and an insult to all the devs who actually take pride in their work and put effort in creating something original.
If you dont like that you should see the titan bars I got from Aldi.
Actually they're suing because of these alleged infringement of these weirdly general patents:
- throwing an item at a character in a field triggering a combat state.
- capturing creatures in the wild, rather than in a battle setting.
- riding creatures in an open world and transitioning between those creatures.
Nintendo alleges that they plagiarized their assets.
The thing is, there was a solid argument to be made that some of the meshes for certain Pals were too similar to that of some Pokémon models to be a coincidence, but Nintendo didn't bring any of that up in the lawsuit. They opted to go for the much more flimsy "riding a character" and "summoning a character by throwing a ball/sphere".
I thought GameFreak owned Pokemon.
Hey, I doubt it! Still totally on board to spite nintendo tho
I was planning on starting a new world once 1.0 drops and was worried how big this update will be. This gives me some confidence. I really like what they have done so far and can‘t wait to see how they‘ll wrap it up.
There's another game that mashed Pokémon and Palworld called Pickmon i think, still in early access but they are copying both games shamelessly.
I was thinking about buying this game on a sale.
Can anybody tell me how the game compares to its first release? The game peaked at 2 million consecutive players, that's a lot!
I last played it a couple of months ago. It's significantly more fleshed out than the initial release, which seemed pretty empty and boring by comparison. Crafting isn't really my thing but they make it relatively easy and not as annoying as many other games. Overall it's worth checking out. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would
Any updates on the legal side of things? Didn't Nintendo officially open up a lawsuit not too long ago?
Nintendo mostly lost. They did have to make some minor game updates, glider pals no longer appear when gliding, and you can't throw a captured pal's sphere on summon.
Afaik Nintendo lost!